Loving Psychoanalysis

4 min read 2021-12-23 00:25:42

Decide to Heal

I bring this post to you at the time of the Winter Solstice, the time when we are closest to our unconscious, and therefore have the greatest

1 min read 2021-10-02 20:39:04

The poem below came through me as I arrived in a little cabin on a lake in Vermont a couple of days ago. I came here to meet with my

1 min read 2021-08-06 07:58:14

I am not going to start yet another blog post with the pithy observation that our Western culture prioritizes thinking over feeling. Okay, well, I

5 min read 2021-02-01 01:19:21

Like any other morning, the other day I sat down to meditate with one of Dr. Joe Dispenza’s guided meditation tracks*. I have been studying his

6 min read 2020-07-23 00:27:29

This year I have been deeply studying the work of several people whose ideas and findings are extremely important to the world of healing and

4 min read 2020-03-20 04:33:20

At this moment, take a breath and see if you can relax your jaw. (I just noticed I was holding my breath too.) Grab some tea, and go easy. At a time

4 min read 2019-11-02 08:16:21

“It’s actually a good thing you’re feeling depressed”, I find myself saying to clients more and more lately. Of course, I don’t mean this

4 min read 2019-09-01 06:21:37

I have recently attended the first level of training for Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, or AEDP. The experience transformed me

1 min read 2019-01-29 00:54:10

It was the second day of a 3-day conference, and I returned to my hotel room in the evening, feeling the kind of deep fullness one has when

1 min read 2018-12-30 04:19:00

As the year draws to a close, as always, I find myself reflecting on the most important things I came to understand and learn over its course. While

1 min read 2018-08-19 07:43:24

Like most people, I tend to dislike cleaning. I do it because it needs to get done, but it’s not really fun. It is literally a chore, something

1 min read 2018-05-27 22:52:46

In Part 1 of this post, I talked about how it happens that people continually recreate the situation where they have no money, despite possibly

1 min read 2018-04-08 02:05:33

I’ve worked with a number of clients for whom this scenario is very familiar: they live paycheck to paycheck, and no matter how much or how little

1 min read 2017-08-28 04:32:56

Almost all of my clients talk about being “too lazy” or “just lazy” as their reason for not doing things they want to do or believe they

1 min read 2017-07-22 21:45:48

The other day, I was walking down the street and noticed a really happy, joyful feeling. The weather was perfect, it wasn’t humid, the air smelled